Word: maritain
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Ominous from a religious viewpoint was a symposium of personal credos by 38 assorted intellectuals which was published this week.* For only one of the 38, Catholic Jacques Maritain, believes firmly in a personal God or in traditional Christianity. As individual as their authors, who range from Humorist James Thurber to Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the credos still managed to agree that the world's state is parlous, that organized religion offers no real solution...
...lecture here last Thursday afternoon Jacques Maritain, noted French philosopher, declared that today the world's greatest need is a Christian revolution based on the idea of "brotherly love" and a reacknowledgement of "divine guidances" in world affairs...
...Maritain, whom T.S. Eliot '10 has called "the most conspicuous figure and probably the most powerful force in contemporary philosophy," spoke in Emerson D under the auspices of the departments of philosophy and romance languages. He is a professor of philosophy at the Catholic Institute of Paris, and is recognized as one of the world's authorities on Medieval thought...
Plain, pious U. S. Roman Catholics hear little of the tremendous widening of modern Catholic theology in Europe. There the most influential lay Catholic thinker is a mild-mannered little Frenchman, Jacques Maritain, convert to the faith and professor at the Institut Catholique in Paris. Maritain is a follower of the great medieval doctor of the Church, St. Thomas Aquinas. In Neo-Thomism, based upon the monumental Summae of St. Thomas, Maritain sees the unique cure for modern ills. Seeking, like Karl Barth, to rescue civilization from humanism and revive pure Christianity, Neo-Thomism does not "annihilate man before...
...Santayana moved to Paris, has lived for the past twelve years in an obscure hotel in Rome, sees few visitors, has no friends who live permanently in Rome, carries on a wide correspondence, writing letters that are as polished as his published works. He admires Proust, reads Jacques Maritain, is interested in Spengler, Freud, Hindu philosophy, occasionally passes days without speaking to anyone except hotel employes. Slightly stout, he wears sedate dark clothes, black ties, might be taken for a prosperous English banker except for his dark complexion and intense black eyes...